[Gendergap] What we are up against

[Michael J. Lowrey]

https://storify.com/JessicaValenti/what-happens-when-a-woman-writer-asks-a-question-o

I don't have words for this, just prayer for the souls of the idiots involved.

-- 
Michael J. Orange Mike Lowrey

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes.
 --  Desiderius Erasmus

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[Gendergap] Lila's keynote speech at Wikimania 2014

[Pine W]

Hi all,

I would like to encourage those of us who may have missed Lila's keynote
speech at Wikimania to listen to it. [1] In her speech, Lila takes a long
view of Wikimedia's history and future. She talks about incremental and
disruptive changes that are happening socially and technologically such as
the shift toward mobile and wearable computing, and the use of technology
in the developing world. She also talks about modes of contribution, and
changes inside the Wikimedia projects that would encourage more people to
participate actively.

Thanks very much, Lila. I look forward to seeing how the trends and
opportunities that you describe are addressed in our new strategic plan.

Pine

[1] http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/saturday2014
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Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons

[Pine W]

Hi Janine,

Of the links that you mentioned I was only able to get one of them to work,
but I searched for friendlier IRC clients and I think I've found one. It's
called Kiwi IRC. I'll ask the Freenode people what they think about
changing their default web client to Kiwi. If they want to keep their
current client it may still be possible for Wikimedia to change the default
chat client used when people connect directly from English Wikipedia to
#wikipedia-en-help.

Pine


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

 Janine, can you share links to the sites? I'm seriously interested in this
 idea of a friendlier interface for IRC.

 Pine
 On Aug 2, 2014 8:03 PM, Janine Starykowicz jrst...@barntowire.com
 wrote:

 One of the sites I've found them on is more technical, but another is
 definitely not. The embedded version is very newbie friendly.

 Janine

 Pine W wrote:

 That sounds workable and hopefully friendly.

 Pine

 On Aug 2, 2014 7:51 PM, Janine Starykowicz jrst...@barntowire.com
 mailto:jrst...@barntowire.com wrote:

 There are plenty of people using IRC, but many of them don't know
 it. There are chatroom/IRC hybrids, generally on forum
 sites. You embed the chat window in a web page, and anyone can join
 in. Those who want can use any IRC client to get to
 the same channel, but with more features.

 http://www.irchighway.net/
 http://mibbit.com/

 Janine

 Sarah Stierch wrote:

 Exactly. IRC is for the old school and ubergeek. And as Sue has
 said in the past - we're only going to retain specific
 types of people to be long term editors (ubergeeks like us) but,
 if we can figure out a solution to help out the average
 joe/sphine editor...



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